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We went to see the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra's spring Young People's Concert on Friday morning. Friday evening we camped in the backyard -- with a campfire and all. It was freezing cold when we...
Grandma started growing an avocado tree for us -- well, technically, I suppose she started the seed...and from what we've read, it will most likely never bear fruit. But, it's fun! If you want to...
I started writing here in January 2011. It wasn't until June of the same year I decided I wanted to make this a more permanent website. That is when my sweet friend Christina helped me figure out...
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"It's such a powerful connection; it takes me by surprise. I feel like there's a dotted line connecting me to my son." -Sarah Langston
Happy Mother's Day... ...to my smart, beautiful, creative mom. I love you! I recently read this quotation by Washington Irving and could not help but think of my own mom. He says, "A mother is the...
What the hell, are you serious? You want me to teach lessons from four different areas of science in tandem? And having a turn crank generator is optional? This is the response of many a homeschool...
Benjamin is adorable. Seriously. I could just squeal sometimes when he's reading out loud. I love that he pronounces the digraph WH just like Stewie Griffin, in other words, he uses the proper...
Happy Belated Cinco de Mayo! Uh-huh, we celebrated... We partied like it was 1862. Ole! Early this week I had to visit my oncologist's office to have some blood drawn. You see, my mouth is on fire....
It's still a bit cool here; seasonal, I suppose. We've been puttering around the house a lot lately, making fires in the fire pit in the evenings and happily, spending our time in the backyard. The...
We returned to Bellaire Woods yesterday. We'd planned to return last weekend but our desire to visit Boba Fett and the rest of the Star Wars baddies outweighed our desire to go to the woods. Can...
Last year Benjamin built a Spartan helmet using cardboard, watered down glue and paper scraps. Remember? He didn't have a Spartan costume (as evidenced by the odd assortment of items he's wearing...
Benjamin adores the Cork & Fuzz books. They are about a tall, bug-munching opossum named Fuzz, and an adorable little brown muskrat named, Cork. To help him practice his reading, Benjamin has been...
This afternoon Benjamin and I were in the backyard, working on his Boba Fett helmet. After we finished the first coat of paper, I noticed these Clone Troopers in the grass. Just as quickly they...
Even though we met Pennsylvania's attendance requirement back in March, we're still doing school-y stuff. It's why I consider us year-round homeschoolers, I don't draw a line between school and...
Our favorite symphony orchestra, the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, performed a pops concert this weekend. The theme? Scores from popular science fiction television and film! We love the symphony,...
Thursday evening it was warm enough to eat outside on the patio, but cool enough to make a fire in our new fire pit. It was cozy. Benjamin has been tending to the garden -- the chives are thriving...
We joined the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation in 2011, and one of the sites Benjamin always wished we could visit is the Cornwall Iron Furnace. Yesterday, we did! Cornwall is a sleepy little town...
This morning -- after Benjamin finished some reading and we did a little bit of math -- I told him I had a surprise for him -- we were going to the Cornwall Iron Furnace! I went to the website to...
A few moments ago I was sitting in the backyard, when what should rise out of the horizon but a huge, colorful hot air balloon... I yelled for Benjamin to come and see it... He, Michael and I stood...
We are building a small patio out back...for our grill! Michael hired two brothers to prepare the site...they brought their equipment. They had a little bit of trouble with their motor, but "Mike"...
April marks the first month during which I purposefully scheduled a week-of-vacation (from school) for Benjamin. Yea, it seems silly...but, I've noticed he always comes back to his reading...
We drove to Lancaster today, to visit Landis Valley Farm & Museum... “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” ― John Muir, The Wilderness World of John Muir
So, what are we going to be doing in Grade Three? Since we loved using the Core Knowledge Sequence for Grade Two, we plan to use it through Grade Eight. We do reading and math through the summer,...
It is cold. And raining. So, today was a good day to visit the museum... German Grobe, Flower Fields, c.1900, oil on canvas Frederick Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, 1863, oil on canvas Benjamin West, St....
We began using Reading Horizons products in mid-2012, beginning with the Discover Intensive Phonics program. Soon, (and you might remember my recent review) we began using the updated direct...
"Mom, do you know what I noticed," he said to me last week. "What?" I replied, predicting this inquiry would have something to do with a.) cowboys or b.) the Civil War. "Ants carry off the dead...
Yesterday we visited Shenk Park with Grandma & Grandpa. Benjamin has outgrown the backyard, when it comes to playing wiffle ball. So, we visited a larger venue...and he and Grandpa had some fun....
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